Lent
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And I'd better get a move on. Ash Wednesday has only 25 minutes left.
RJ, that has got to be the saddest looking little emoticon I've ever seen. Poor little guy. (giggle)
In a sense, I'm giving up an hour's sleep each Sunday. I'm going to a Lenten Sunday school that meets before Eucharist. I'm also going to up my giving during Lent for the collection plate.
Lent actually means something to me now that I've become an Episcopalian. While I'm giving up, I'm trying to add. I've got special Lenten devotions to read each day, and I'm reading a Lenten themed book.
Lent actually means something to me now that I've become an Episcopalian. While I'm giving up, I'm trying to add. I've got special Lenten devotions to read each day, and I'm reading a Lenten themed book.
Um, so nobody here has the courage to do the thing properly and fast?
No meats or dairy for forty days if I remember correctly.
But no, silly me, giving up your ipod is just as good. rolleyes
No meats or dairy for forty days if I remember correctly.
But no, silly me, giving up your ipod is just as good. rolleyes
I fail to see how giving something up makes you a better person. If it's something harmful, you should have given it up already (or at least you should own your vice instead of feeling guilt about something you are going to do anyway). And if it isn't something harmful... why give it up? Self-discipline is a wonderful thing, but if you do it due to social pressure, well, it isn't self-discipline at all.
Lulz.
Nah, I'm sure God will still talk to me if I keep eating.
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It is good. Spirit, not letter.
Well, I'm sure in 380 AD or whenever the Catholic church came up with guidelines for a practice that no, is not in the Bible and therefore has no "proper way of doing it," if they had known about iPods, they would've put them pretty far up on the list.
But as I've told you all over and over again, the way that I practice my religion is the right one and the rest of you are totally, irrefutably wrong because you do it one thousandth of a percent different.
And I'm sure St. Peter will bring that up when he pokes you with a pitchfork and throws your screaming body into Hell.
But as I've told you all over and over again, the way that I practice my religion is the right one and the rest of you are totally, irrefutably wrong because you do it one thousandth of a percent different.
And I'm sure St. Peter will bring that up when he pokes you with a pitchfork and throws your screaming body into Hell.
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Like St. Peter would give me the time of day...dude's busy, ya know.
He's got a book as thick as Gone With the Wind on you.
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Like St. Peter would give me the time of day...dude's busy, ya know.
He's got a book as thick as Gone With the Wind on you.
No doubt.
My sins are a bestseller in Heaven!
I've given up buying craft supplies for Lent. That is a pretty big sacrifice for me.
How about if I just donate 100.00 to the mission and continue drinking whatever I normally drink?
I'm giving up "being with" more than 11+ people. At least the same ones. Well, except for one...
I've given up buying craft supplies for Lent. That is a pretty big sacrifice for me.
I've given up buying cat food. The cats don't know they're celebrating Lent yet.
I've given up buying cat food. The cats don't know they're celebrating Lent yet.
This literally made me laugh out loud. Scared the hell out of my cat when I did it too.
Sticking to the fasting thing, although over here only Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory fasting days... I'll do it throughout Lent. No meat, one proper meal a day and one or two smaller ones. And I also intend to pick up the prayer a bit more.
Such a shame that my birthday almost always has to fall in Lent...
Such a shame that my birthday almost always has to fall in Lent...
I'm probably going to stick to the "no meat on Fridays" thing, and give up...ah hell, I still don't really know.
I'm a bad Catholic.
Me too.
Got my ashes, only to ruin it by eating meat for dinner
